Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1942 — Page 2

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IN REDS’ I the

Front Dispatches Say Key.

City Circled; Allison-Motor |

Planes Used by Russ.

MOSCOW, March 23 (U.

P.). ~~}

Russian forces have surrounded an |

ancient walled city believed

to be!

the key town of Novgorod on the]

Leningrad front just north of Lake Ilmen, dispatches front Said today. The Novgorod sector has been one of the most important and most fiercely contested in the Red Army's winter counter-offensive since it is 8 Key to the German lines around Leningrad. Farther south the enemy strongpoint of Rzhev is believed to be virtually encircled. Dispatches said that German counter-attacks were beaten back during the night and that the Russians took a number of towns and killed more than 700 enemy troops by mining a troop train

from the

Use American Airacobras Meanwhile preparations to use the American-built plane were going forward The army newspaper Red Star said Afracobras, known in the United States army P-39s, and equipped with Indianapolis - built Allison engines, had been provided for an entire regiment of the Soviet air force, and the fliers praised the ships as superior to the latest of the vaunted German Messerschmitts. Germany, too, was said be bringing up new planes the! spring offensive. Russian fliers shot down two of the latest-type German pursuit ships which appeared for the first time on the Leningrad front. The Germans were believed

Airacobra fighter

to for

‘Zero Hour’

Preparing for a mass meeting of residents of civilian defense district 39 at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the American United Life Insur-

ance Co. auditorium, Fall Creek blvd. and N. Meridian st.,

are (left

to right), Mrs. Georgia Ludlun, Mrs. Arthvr W. McDonald and Mrs.

Arthur G. Funkhouser.

the speakers. District 39 is bounded on the north by 34th st.

Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall will be among on the

west by Capitol ave. and Fall Creek + on the south and east.

BATAAN SPURNS

JAP ULTIMATUM

wr for Battle Is

Believed Near After ‘Give Up’ Demand.

WASHINGTON, March 23 (U.P. Philippine defenders, grimly for the “zero hour” of a Japanese offensive, have sent a mesto Gen. pledging a valorous stand until “triumph over the aggressor.” The message was sent to Gen. MacArthur's new high post of command in Australia. It was anannounced in a war department communique today which gave no indication that the Japanese

sage

fensive on Bataan.

The launching of the Japanese!

waiting

Douglas MacArthur

had | started their anticipated major of-|

chricker Gets USO Honor Post

ACCEPTANCE by Gov Schricker of the honorary chair- ! manship of the 1942 Indiana campaign to raise funds for the United Service Organizations was

announced today in New York by John D. Rockefeller Jr., national chairman. The campaign will open May 11 and Gov. Schricker is expected to make several speeches in its behalf. In the 1941 campaign, $15.000 was raised in Indiana. This exceeded the state's quota by nearly $100,000. The 1942 quota likely will be double the amount subscribed last year.

STATE RESTAURANT

SESSION TOMORROW

The Indiana Restaurant association will open its ninth annual con-

to have been holding them for the|assault was awaited following Lieut.| vention and trade exposition at the

spring offensive. Reds Say 12.000 Slain

Russian troops driving forward on the Kalinin front, 100 miles northwest of Moscow, were reported of-| ficially to have killed about 12.000! German officers and men between March 11 and 21 i On one sector of the Kalinin] more inhabited localities, munique said. On the Bryansk front, gouthwest of Moscow. Stormovik dive bombers Soviet infantry in storming heavily fortified enemy center, it was announced. Three field fortifications were captured Hundreds of German dead remained on the battlefield after the| enemy started an unsuccessful] counter-attack in the Crimea.

Russian supported |

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{ Filipino defenders of Bataan,

| Gen.

Gen. Jonathan M. rejection—in defiant silence—of a Japanese “surrender or die” ultimatum which expired at noon Sunday.

Congratulates MacArthur

by Gen. Wainwright since

simo,

The latest

| were dropped behind the American | lines telling Gen, MacArthur it was “futile” to resist further. Yesterday's ulimatum, issued by Tomoyuki Yamashita, also came after “feeler” thrusts by the enemy.

“The Japanese commander sesso

a manifesto addressed to Gen. Wainwright demanding that he surrender by noon Sunday or suffer the consequences,” the war department communique said. “No reply was necessary and none was made.”

NELSON APPEALS T0 LABOR CHIEFS

(Continued from Page One)

and the 40-hour week, and limit profits. Week-end included: 1. A C.1.0. glassworkers’ union withdrew ite demands for extra pay for Sunday work and for a union shop and check off.

Angered By Arnold

2. Labor officials privately expressed anger at Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnolds eriticism of labor unions. He told 2a house committee that the rights of the consumer, the farmer and little business operator are “entirely | subject to the will of the labor union.” 3. The war labor board announced that it would hold its first public hearing Wednesday on a case involving time and one-half for Saturdays and double time for Sundays. The dispute involves eight plants of the International Harvester Company, employing 25,000 workers. 4—Chairman Harry S. Truman (D. Mo.) of a senate committee investigating the war effort, indicated willingness to investigate charges by the A. F. L.. and C. I. O. that an organized campaign is being waged to force repeal or drastic alteration of existing labor laws.

labor developments

BURNS KILL HOOSIER

SHERIDAN, Ind, March 23 (U. P.).—Mrs, Lydia Craig, 84, died in her home here today of burns received when her clothing caught fire as she stood before an open stove.

Wainwright's |

|be given at the L.

{the legislative and Japanese ultimatum a| followed the same pattern used by Miss Jane M. Porter, {the enemy in January. when leaflets| the Detroit

{board, and A. L.

Antlers hotel at 10 a. m. tomorrow. The convention will close Thursday night. A “pre-convention”’ breakfast will S. Ayres & Co. tearoom in honor of Fred A. Simonsen of Detroit, or of the National sociation. Speakers at the convention will Mr. Simonsen; W. O. Indianapolis, director of the national association; G. R. LeNew York, chairman priorities committee of the national association: manager of Woment's City elub: M. O. Cullen, Chicago, director of | the meat merchanting department {of the National Livestock and Meat | Simmons of New of the Indiana association

Castle, president Restaurant

Judge ¢ Confines Speeder to Bus

A CRANK CASE inspector at the Allison division of General Motors was ordered today by Judge John L. Niblack to ride a bus to work for the next 60 days. He was found guilty of reckless driving. Judge Niblack of Municipal court 4 suspended the driving license of Edward Wirth, 41, of 2728 N. Pennsylvania st, for 60 days. He also fined him $40 and costs. “I would give you a tence if it weren't for that vou are and your said. Corp. Wayne M, Baer of the accident prevention bureau testified that Wirth drove 70 miles an hour between Tibbs and Giande ave. last Friday,

WINS CABLE AWARD ‘FOR JUVENILE WORK

William D. Brooks, 2925 Paris ave.. vesterday was presented with the Cable award for the ‘most outstanding and unselfish service” to Indianapolis. The presentation was made by Lieut. Gov. Charles M. Dawson at a meeting of the Federation of Associated clubs, Inc. Mrs. Henry J. Richardson Jr., 4051 Rookwood ave., was principal speaker and outlined the history of the federation and the work Mr. Brooks has accomplished in his efforts to reduce juvenile delinquency and to build Negro business and to obtain jobs for Negroes, Among those who tock part in the meeting were Dr. Theodore Cable, donor of the award, Starling W. James, federation president, and Mrs. Pearl Williams, program chairman,

‘HOME

jail senthe fact a defense worker services are needed bv country,” Judge

your

IE DESTROYED

a fire which destroyed the farm home of Clyde Meyers

mile from 46th st. The loss was estimated at $6000. Neighbors formed a bucket bri|gade and kept the fire from spreadling to a big barn. They also removed most of the furniture from the house.

G. M. OUTPUT UP 400; NEW YORK, March 23 (U. P.).— General Motors Corp. increased its war production by 400 per cent in the second half of 1941 and at present is turning out airplanes, tanks and other equipment at a rate of more than $1.000,000.000 annually, Alfred P. Sloan Jr. chairman, said today.

ilms Developed

asi 20

ie » Fined

ELMER DAVIS Studlo a wh

district govern- | Restaurant as-|

of |

[tack in force on Lae, the great Jap{anese invasion base on the Hyon

| ground,

Niblack |

BY $6000 BLAZE ||

| An overheated stove today started |§

on High! School road, about one-fourth of a!

PORT MORESBY RAIDED AGAIN

Heaviest Bombing Attack of | War Made by Japs on New Guinea Base.

(Continued from Page One)

by Gen. Douglas MacArthur in conferences with Australian War Minister F. M. Forde and other military officials regarding strategy in the southwest Pacific. | Gen. MacArthur's ability as com- | mander of united nations forces again was lauded by Mr. Forde.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

| who promised that operations would i be aggressive rather than defensive. | Two enemy planes were shot | ‘down in two raids today on Port | | Moresby, John Curtin, Australian | prime minister announced. The first raid was made by 19/| ‘bombers, accompanied by navy-| zero fighter planes. Military ob- | jectives and the town were bombed land machine-gunned. The second jraid. this afternoon, was described fas “heavy,” but Mr. Curtin said {there was little damage and no {casualties. The planes shot down | were navy zeros, bringing to 28 the | total of enemy craft destroyed since | Saturday. Japanese land forces are march{ing on Port Moresby through the { Markham valley.

Open Ferocious Offensive

Allied planes, with American | flying fortresses playing a star role, {opened during the week-end a ferocious offensive on the Japanese invasion area northeast of Australia. Twenty-two of the total of enemy planes destroyed or damaged were bagged in this offensive, and the 23d was shot down over the north Australian coast. In addition, the allied planes made a direct hit on a Japanese ammuntion dump. In this offensive, one of their heaviest and most successful of the

Pacific war, the allied air fleets lost a total of two planes and two crew- | men of a third were wounded. During the week-end the Japanese bomuyed Darwin, the great al-| lied north coast base, and Broome, | on the northwest coast.

Attack Railroad Town

Attacking an inland town for the | first time, the Japanese bombed | | Katherine, on the Darwin failrosd) 175 miles southeast of Darwin and | 100 miles north of Birdum, south-| ein terminus of the railroad, in an! evident attempt to cut the vital al-| lied supply line to the north coast. ! In their New Guinea raids, allied planes made a daring low-level at-

onlf, They destroyed three great Japanese bombing planes and nine fighters which they caught on the leaving them aflame, and damaged two additional bombers {and three fighters.

Damage Timor Base

Allied planes also raided Rabaul harbor and airdrcme yesterday, hurling bombs directly into their target area. Prime Minister Curtin announced also that allied planes in a heavy attack on Koepang, in Netherlands Timor, Saturday, landed bombs on the airdrome and the town and fought off interception attempts by Japanese fighter planes. A Port Moresby dispatch on the allied New Guinea raids noted that the allied air war in that zone was rapidly changing from defensive to { offensive.

‘FUNERAL TUESDAY . FOR EVERETT CLAIR

Everett Clair, 64, died yesterday after a prolonged illness. I A native of Castleton, Ind. he lived at 567 Lynn st, He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Clair; a daughter, Ethel, and {two sons, Everett Jr. and Ralph; a brother, Roy Clair, Greenwood, Ind.: and three sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith of Indianapolis; Mrs. Fmma Riley, Oaklandon, and Mrs. Pearl Tate, Castleton. Services will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Conkle funeral home. Burial will be in Glen Haven cemetery.

B. T. BROWN DEAD ORLAND, Ind., March 23 (U. P.). —Funeral services will be held at Delta, O., tomorrow for B. T. Brown, founder of the Wall Lake fishing resort near here, who died yesterday. Mr. Brown, who was 78, was widely known in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio.

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SOOTHING - COOLING REALING

JCULINE

Hawaii Calling... We Need More Men and Airplanes!

(Continued from Page One)

clash can develop, the losses sustained at Pearl Harbor will have been replaced and the damages repaired. Chins, as well as thumbs, are up in these islands. But that is as of today. Tomorrow could present a different picture. * Even so, it is not fear, but a determination not to be caught napping again, that motivates the demand that the Washington war cabinet take another, and an early, look at Hawaii's importance to the over-all plans for allied victory, as well as to its more direct and inescapable importance to the plans for American self-preservation. It is frequently pointed out that Britain herself, with a reported three and a half million men under arms in the British isles, has not overlooked the little matter of self-preservation. Here today it is not a case of “too little. too late,” but rather one of “so much so quickly.” Defensively the Oahu of today is as changed trom the Oahu of Dec. 7 as the Britain of today differs from the Britain of Dunkirk. ”

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= ” = ON THIS ISLAND one of the most startling defense efforts of our history has been effected in the few weeks since Pearl Harbor. To the writer, familiar with the islands and their defenses for nearly 20 years, the achievement challenges belief. Compared with defense work in Australia, Java and Singapore, as they were viewed by the writer a scant 18 months ago, the defenses of Oahu today compare as concrete to stucco. But from a defense standpoint there is more to the territory of Hawaii than Oahu. Not all of the other large islands—Hawaii, Maui, Molokai and Kauai—have yet developed the defensive strength achieved by Oahu. It is conceded that under certain conditions especially favorable to them, the Japs might effect at least temporary landings on one of these slipper island stepping stones. Such a landing would constitute a threat to Honolulu and Pearl Harbor that would have to be dealt with promptly to avoid neutralizing Oahu’s strategic value. It is pointed out that the expenditure in money, men and planes necessary to prevent the creation of this hazard would be trifling compared to the cost of removing it. It is to insure against even the threat of such a landing on any of the other islands, and to insure the quick dislodgment of any such force which might establish a beach-head, that more men and more planes are

demanded. ” ” 2

THE INCREASED STRENGTH in men, guns and planes since Dec. 7 has been enormous. It is not accepted as sufficient, however, by those who believe that, so far as the United States is concerned, Hawaii must be the take-off point for the ultimate effort to wrest the lost Pacific territory from Japan. Estimates of the number of men and planes required to insure the impregnability of these islands vary among civilians, and are not discussed by the military. It is generally accepted, however, that the numbers are not formidable. They are not believed to be large enough to decide the issue on any other front to which the same number of men and planes might be sent. And if there is another spot on the map more vital to American defense, it is not visible from Hawaii.

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(A second article, dealing with the Japanese situation in Hawali, will follow tomorrow.)

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MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1942

Local Organizations

Warren Township Club to Meet —The Warren township Democratic club will meet at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow in the home of John F. Linder, on E. 30th st., between Shadeland and Franklin road. Forrest Gordon, president, will preside at the husi-

ness meeting.

Air Patrol to Drill—Civil Air Patrol squadron 33 will hoid a military drill at 7 o'clock tonight at Municipal Gardens. At the same time and place Thursday the group will receive first aid instruction.

Neighbors to Meet — Marion county camp, Royal Neighbors of America, will hold its monthly meet-

ing Wednesday at Ft. Friendly. | | Members will observe the 47th an- | |niversary of the organization and | formal initiation of candidates will {be held. Mrs. Elizabeth Riley, |county oracle, will preside,

Card Party Arranged—A card | party at 2 p. m. Wednesday at Ft. { Friendly will be sponsored by T. | W. Bennett circle, 23 and A. B. | Streight circle, 16, Ladies of the

Auxiliary Meetings Set — Three meetings of the Sahara Grotto auxiliary are scheduled this week. The investigating committee will meet at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday in the home of Mrs. Clarence Reyn~ olds on the Hunter road and the telephone committee will meet at 12:30 p. m. the same day at the home of Mrs. Andrew Barker, 1022 High st. The welfare committee will meet at 12:30 p. m. Friday in the home of Mrs. Carl Shey, 3180 Kenwood ave, with Mrs. Eli Thompson assisting.

New Augusta to Elect—New Augusta chapter, 284, O. E. 8. will honor past matrons and patrons Wednesday at 8 p. m. at the New Augusta Masonic hall. The group will elect a new associate conductress.

Relief Corps to Sew—Maj. Robert Anderson, Women's Relief Corps 44, will meet at 10 a. m. Wednesday in Ft. Friendly, 512 N. Illinois st., to sew for the Red Cross. Mesdames Leona Welling, Lillian Stephens and Edna Pauley are work chairmen.

Stated Meeting Tomorrow==Beech Grove chapter 465, O. E. S., will hold a stated meeting tomorrow evening, with a conferring of degrees and a reception for new mem-

Grand Army of the Republic. | Lelie Toten is chairman and Mrs. | Ella Almon is co-chairman.

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